UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD
FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE 21000 NOVI SAD, TRG DOSITEJA OBRADOVIĆA 8
Study Programme Accreditation
MASTER ACADEMIC STUDIES: SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION
Table 5.2 Course specification
Course:
Soil degradation and recultivation
Course id:3МЗИ1И02
Number of ECTS: 6
Teacher:
prof. dr Milivoj Belić, prof. dr Ljiljana Nešić, prof. dr Maja S., Manojlović; dr Vladimir, I., Ćirić, mr Ranko, R.,
Čabilovski
Course status
Elective
Number of active teaching classes (weekly)
Lectures:2
Practical classes:2
Precondition courses
None
1. Educational goal
Other teaching types:
Study research work:
Other classes:
Acquiring scientific expertise of soil degradation, recultivation and environmental protection.
2. Educational outcomes
Students education and training for professional and scientific work in the field of soil protection from degradation and
application of methods for soil recultivation and bioremediation.
3. Course content
Theoretical instruction
The soil as a natural resource. The basic functions of soil. Types of degradation: Degradation of the soil by erosion. Soil degradation in-situ.
Degradation of chemical, physical and biological processes in soil. Global climate change and soil degradation. The cycle of carbon (C) in the
environment. Factors that affect the content of organic matter. Measures for increasing the content of organic matter in the soil. Legislation and
directives for the prevention of soil degradation (Kyoto Protocol, maximum allowed concentrations of heavy metals in the soil, the Law on
Agricultural Land, the Law on Organic Production). The impact of technological progress on soil degradation process. Measures for soil
protection. Remediation and recultivation of contaminated and degraded soils. Soil properties that affect the transport of metal ions in plants.
Plants indicators of soil pollution with heavy metals. Detoxification - fitovolatilization, chelation, compartmentalization . Advantages and
disadvantages of phytoremediation.
Practical instruction
1. Field research 2. Laboratory analysis: active and potential soil acidity, salinity and alkalinity of soil. 3. Fractionation of soil organic matter. 4.
Methods for the determination of heavy metals, pesticides and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soil. 5. The parameters related to the
assessment of soil contamination.
4. Teaching methods
Lectures, practical classes, consultations, research work.
Knowledge evaluation (maximum 100 points)
Pre-examination obligations
Mandatory
Points
Final exam (izabrati)
Mandatory
Points
Oral part of the exam
Yes/No
Yes
50
Lecture attendance
Field research
Yes
10
Laboratory research
Yes
10
Term paper
Yes
30
Literature
Ord.
Author
Title
Publisher
Year
Sekulić P., Kastori R.,
Naučni institut za ratarstvo i
1.
Zaštita zemljišta od degradacije
2003
Hadžić V
povrtarstvo Novi Sad
Kastori R., Bogdanović
D., Kadar I., Milošević
Uzorkovanje zemljišta i biljaka
Naučni institut za ratarstvo i
2.
2006
N., Sekulić P., Pucarević nezagađenih i zagađenih staništa
povrtarstvo Novi Sad
M.
Tot G., Montanarela L.,
European Commission JRC Scientific
3.
Threts to Soil Quality in Europe
2008
Rusco, E.
and Technical Reports
Down to earth: Soil degradation and
European Environment
European Environment Agency EEA,
4.
sustainable development in Europe.
2000
Agency
Copenhagen
Environmental issue series No 16
Introduction to Environmental Soil
5.
Hillel, D.
Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2004
Physics
Principles and Practice of Soil
6.
Robert E. White
Blackwell publishing, Fourth edition
2006
Science